It must be just as famous! Windows 7 to create a new classic

The first touch spotlight officially hit Windows 7, when PDC 2008 last October, Microsoft publicly demonstrated the Windows 7 Build 6801 version of the system. Since then, people's eyes have been gathering on Windows 7 this latest Microsoft operating system, and the latest "leaked test version" of Windows 7 is constantly emerging in various forums.

In January of this year, when Microsoft officially released Windows 7 beta for users to download, download requests from all over the world dragged Microsoft's servers within one day. This forced Microsoft to temporarily shut down the download service, reopened after a lot of expansion, and will only allow the download of 2.5 million copies to be cancelled.

If people say that the enthusiasm for Windows 7 is "over", then we need to see why Windows 7 is so attractive, or why Microsoft is constantly ahead of Windows 7 release time - from the original 2010 Released in January, the RC version was released in advance of April this year, and the RTM version was released in August.

Vista has been developed for 5 years, and Ballmer himself has admitted that "it is not successful." So Windows 7 is so anxious to launch, let us see its mission of shouldering the "right name" - to restore market confidence and create a new classic. Confucius said: "It must be just a name!" Let us see how Windows 7 shines.

1, the most stable & most efficient Windows ever.

When mid-2007, Windows 7 is still a distant product in our eyes. At the time, however, we knew from Microsoft's core engineers that Microsoft was rewriting the kernel code for Windows 7.

In the project named "MiniWin", Microsoft created the most streamlined and efficient Windows kernel for the next generation of operating systems. Eric Traut, a senior engineer at Microsoft University, presented a "MiniWin" kernel in the program at the University of Illinois, which is only 15MB in size, and said that Microsoft is recognizing that Windows is becoming a large, bloated system because of its increased functionality. --Vista's kernel is much larger than the XP kernel.

Microsoft engineers are demonstrating the MiniWin kernel that removes the GUI graphical interface. Therefore, in the development of Windows 7, Microsoft returned to the process of streamlining the kernel. According to reports, the Windows 7 kernel after removing the GUI interface and other related functions is only 25MB in size.

In addition to being small and sophisticated, Microsoft has greatly improved its execution efficiency when it is streamlining the entire Vista kernel. It is particularly important to mention here that although the Windows 7 core has been rewritten and optimized, it still inherits the Vista kernel features and has not been redeveloped for reasons explained later.

Someone will doubt whether Windows 7 is the same as Vista, and then how to improve it will not change the medicine. No, no.

When Windows Server 2008 was released in early 2008, it gained a foothold in the server space with its stable and efficient advantages. Attentive users will find that the kernel code for Windows Server 2008 is 6.1, and the kernel for Windows 7 is also 6.1. The same homologue, it can be seen that Microsoft finally unifies the kernel of the server operating system and desktop products, then Windows 7 naturally has the same stability and efficiency as Server 2008.

According to Microsoft, the kernel of Windows 7 is actually optimized on the kernel of Server 2008. If it is identity, it should be the same as the kernel of Windows Server 2008 R2 (Second Edition). We even found that the current patch for Windows 7 is common to Server 2008. So it's no wonder that Microsoft will firmly believe that Windows 7 is the most stable, secure, and efficient operating system ever.

The following is a set of simple evaluations, tested on Windows 7 Build 7048 64-bit, Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 32/64-bit, Windows Vista SP1 32-bit, Windows XP SP3 32-bit Once again, the highest scorer scored 1 point, the worst scored 5 points, the middle scored 2, 3, and 4 points respectively, and finally accumulated, the lower the total score, the better.

Test platform configuration:

1, high-end system: Phenom X4 9700 processor, Radeon HD 3850 graphics card, 4GB memory

2, low-end system: Pentium DC E2220 processing , GeForce 8400 GS graphics card, 1GB RAM

Test project:

1, system installation: time required to install the operating system

2, system startup: from boot to Average time available for desktop

3, system shutdown: average shutdown time

4, local file movement: transfer 100MB JPEG image file between two hard disks

5, Local file move: Transfer 2.5MB files ranging from 1MB to 100MB between two hard disks

6, Network file transfer: Transfer 100MB JPEG picture files from the test machine to the NAS device

7 , network file transfer: transfer 1MB to 100MB file from the test machine to the NAS device.

8, local file movement under load: make DVD ISO image and transfer 100MB JPEG between two hard disks Image file

9. Local file movement under load: Transfer DVD ISO image while transferring 1MB to 100MB file between two hard disks.

10, negative Load network file transfer: Transfer 100 GB JPEG image file from test machine to NAS device while making DVD ISO image

11, Network file transfer under load: Transfer DVD ISO image while transferring from test machine to NAS device 2.5GB files ranging from 1MB to 100MB

12, file compression: use the system's own ZIP function to compress 100MB files

13, file compression: use the system's own ZIP function to compress 1GB files < Br>

14, file decompression: use the system's own ZIP function to decompress 100MB file

15, file decompression: use the system's own ZIP function to decompress 1GB file

16, load file Compression: Convert DVD RIP to .ISO image while using the system's own ZIP function to compress 100MB file

17. Load under file compression: Convert DVD RIP to .ISO image and use the system to compress ZIP with 1GB. File

18, file decompression under load: DVD RIP into .ISO image and use the system with ZIP function to decompress 100MB file

19, load file decompression: DVD RIP into. The ISO image is also used by the system to extract the 1GB file with the ZIP function.

20, install Office 2007: from the DVD The average time for installing the ultimate version of the CD

21, open a simple Word document: 10 pages, only text

22, open a simple Word document: 100 pages, mixed graphics

23, open a simple Excel document: basic format

24, open a complex Excel document: contains formulas and charts

25, burn DVD disc: burn CD 7 Beta 1 ISO image using CDBurnerXP

26, open a simple PDF document: Adobe Reader 8, 10 pages, only text

27, open complex PDF documents: Adobe Reader 8, 100 pages, mixed graphics

28, 3D games: "Far Cry 2"

29, 3D games: "Call of Duty: World of War"

30, 3D games: "Left 4 Dead"

31, 3D games: "Crysis Warhead"

The final results are as follows:

The classics of the past are not only brilliant - but also a solid foundation

We all know that Vista is under the pressure of "interview (marketing)", the interview result is - most employers expressed disappointment. Microsoft is eager to once again stage XP to change the user experience of "experience miracle", but the result is that users agree that Vista's operation is cumbersome, not as simple as XP. So Vista became synonymous with gorgeous, bloated, and inefficient. What's more, take the difference between Vista and Windows Me.

If Windows Me was originally a "commemorative" Windows for the millennium, it was the last 98 kernel Windows, so its old kernel is destined to end. Then we need to pay attention to another fact: Microsoft has experimented with a lot of new technologies in it - these technologies shine in XP.

Vista looks like a bitter, directly experimenting with new kernels, new user interfaces, new ways of operating, new features... "The world treats new things, it is demanding." Most of us stood firmly in front of XP and pointed to failure in Vista - but ignored bold innovations and brave practices. There are indeed unsatisfactory places, there are indeed areas for improvement, and there are indeed functions that are not considered comprehensive - but we do not seem to have the right to deny the ideas and achievements that many engineers are so convinced - because we know that they are making the user experience better. Operating system.

It’s been 3 years since Vista was released. Now that we’re embracing Windows 7, all kinds of accolades and auras are shrouded in Vista-based improvements and optimizations. But the author believes that what really excites users is Microsoft's respect for users, from the improvement of UAC to the friendliness of the user interface, and the compatibility of Windows 7 is greatly enhanced (this is the main problem faced by Vista when it is launched). Advance testing to Windows 7 driver issues, etc.

The plum blossoms come from bitter cold, and Windows 7 stands on the shoulders of Vista. What we see more is a positive attitude and a spirit of entering. Today, when the financial cold snap is swept away, this spirit is even more worthy of admiration--"Investing in tomorrow, people who are not afraid of failure" is wise; and "in the face of defeat, taking it as a nutrient, self-improvement" is The real strong.

The journey of the name of Windows 7 has just begun.